Who knew – The Coke bottle at AT&T Park gets a face lift. In all the time I spend at AT&T Park, I was unaware the Coke bottle gets an annual refurbish. The crew working on the bottle install new letters and make sure all the lights work, patch it up and paint it for the upcoming season. BTW, the Coke bottle is 80 feet long with playground slides that will blow bubbles and light up with every Giants home run.
The field now has no grass, its all sand. The greens crew has about 3 weeks to get the grass in place for it to be ready for pre-season. FYI… under the sand, the field sits on a rock bed that sits on a grated steel floor. This provides sufficient water drainage. Under this grated steel floor airflow is provided by an massive engine located under the left field bleachers to provide quicker drainage.
Next week, I will start removing some of our older equipment in our TX facility to make room for our new infrastructure. Will keep you posted.
Director, Broadcast and Transmission Operations
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Quiet everybody! We have an announcement to make!
MediaOne Services, San Francisco’s leading digital media production company, announced today the signing of a new four- year contract with the San Francisco Giants. MediaOne will continue to manage and operate all broadcasts services for the San Francisco Giants as well as AT&T Park.
MediaOne Services offers a broad range of services including broadcast engineering, transmission, webcast, video production, web and mobile integration as well as full-service studio and post-production rentals.
“It was only natural for us to renew our partnership with MediaOne as they have a successful track record in providing live HDTV transmission and production services for our local and national broadcast rights holders and continue to be a trusted partner here at AT&T Park,” said Mario Alioto, senior vice president of the San Francisco Giants. “We look forward to continuing this effective broadcast collaboration, serving both the Giants and AT&T Park.”
“We’ve deeply enjoyed working with the San Francisco Giants and AT&T Park for the past 11 years, and during this time, we’ve had the great pleasure of capturing several monumental, live sporting events,” said Ben Schick, chief executive officer of MediaOne. “In particular, MediaOne was fortunate to have managed the transmission and broadcast services for the 2010 World Series, 2011 Cal Football and 2007 All-Star Game.
The San Francisco Giants are one of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball They have won the most games of any North American professional sports team and in 2010 won their first World Series Championship since moving to San Francisco from New York in 1958
MediaOne Services is a global video production company headquartered in San Francisco, providing strategies, studios and services to enterprises, broadcasters, webcasters, and NGOs. Customers include NBC, Electronic Arts, HP, Climate Reality, Ustream, ESPN, McKesson, BBC, Girl Scouts and more.
